SLATOR

Operated by NORTHSTAR OPERATING COMPANY (P-5 614609) in the GOLDSMITH (5600) field. Every figure below is a volume the Railroad Commission published, multiplied by a monthly price you can check.

Oil lease lease 29996District 08Field 35652868Hydrogen sulphide fieldOilCasinghead gasSaveExport
Value, all time
$442 k
Jan 1993 – Mar 2007
Value, last 12 filed months
$56 k
at the published price for each month
Months reported
171
no gaps in the span
Streams
2
oil, casinghead gas

The Railroad Commission's own record for the field this lease produces from, including the spacing rule that governs how close together its wells may be drilled.

These are facts about the field, not about this lease. The field holds 157 leases and 1,575 wells, and the rule below applies to all of them.

Discovered
1947-10-26
as the register files it
Field class
Oil and gas
the register's own label
Between wells
850 ft
minimum
From a lease line
555 ft
minimum

A drilling unit in this field needs at least 20 acres.

The register flags this field for hydrogen sulphide. That is a poisonous gas that occurs naturally in some formations. The flag is a property of the field as the Commission records it. It is not a measurement taken at this lease, and it is not a statement that gas is escaping anywhere.

The Commission's schedule remark for this field reads: INTO THE GOLDSMITH (CLEAR FORK) FIELD.

What this lease produced, and what it was worth

Oil and condensate are valued on the volume the state records as disposed of; gas and casinghead gas on the volume produced. They are different columns of different files, and the difference is not cosmetic.

StreamBasisVolumeValue
OilDisposition16,826 bbl$441,587
Casinghead gasProduction10,810 Mcf$718
Total$442,304

10,538 Mcf of this lease's gas, across 48 months, carries no value here. No free Texas wellhead gas price exists before 1997, so those months are left out of the total rather than valued at zero. The total above is therefore a floor, not an estimate.

Wells on this lease (1)

Every wellbore the Railroad Commission records against this lease key, with the depth, the last completion and the plug date exactly as filed. A well with no plug date is not stated to be producing — the state files no such flag.

These wells centre on 31.9267, -102.6901. A lease has no coordinate of its own — that point is the mean of its wells, and they span 0.0 miles.

31.92668, -102.69014 · centre of the wells drawn, derived

What these wells add up to

Every figure below is counted over all of this lease's wells, not over the rows listed above. The Railroad Commission files two facts about a well's state — a plug date and a proration-schedule flag — and a well can carry both, so they are published as separate counts and never merged into a status.

On the schedule
100.0%
1 of 1 wells
With a plug date
0.0%
0 of 1 wells
Median depth
5,953 ft
1 wells filed one
Completion to plug
no well filed both dates

What the state filed about each well

On the RRC proration schedule
1100.0%
A plug date is filed
00.0%
BothOn the schedule and plugged. Neither fact cancels the other.
00.0%
NeitherNo plug date, and not on the schedule.
00.0%

A plug date is the date the Commission recorded the wellbore as sealed with cement and abandoned. It is the only end-of-life fact Texas files. There is no "active" flag on a well, so this page does not print one — a well with no plug date is not stated to be producing.

How deep they were drilled

The one well that filed a depth was drilled to 5,953 ft.

Completions filed
Jul 1985
1 of 1 wells

1 well

42-1353496315,953 ftJul 1985Yes

The API number is the state's, prefixed 42 for Texas. A well is matched to this lease by the lease key the Commission files on the wellbore record, so a well that has moved between leases appears under each one it was filed against.

Every month this lease reported (171)

Volume × price = value, one row per cycle. The price columns are the same series published on the prices page — nothing here is modelled.

171 months

Mar 20070056.927.30$0
Feb 20070055.108.22$0
Jan 20070050.306.73$0
Dec 20060056.656.92$0
Nov 20060054.207.62$0
Oct 2006173054.906.01$9,498
Sep 2006177060.085.04$10,634
Aug 20060068.717.34$0
Jul 2006180069.376.34$12,487
Jun 20065066.286.38$331
May 2006181066.016.42$11,948
Apr 2006175064.397.36$11,268
Mar 20062056.707.08$113
Feb 2006177057.597.75$10,193
Jan 2006183060.598.93$11,088
Dec 20050054.9413.42$0
Nov 20050054.6910.59$0
Oct 20052058.3413.80$117
Sep 2005179061.4512.08$11,000
Aug 2005179061.519.80$11,010
Jul 20050055.697.84$0
Jun 2005173052.337.38$9,053
May 20056045.226.65$271
Apr 2005183049.207.36$9,004
Mar 2005181050.377.15$9,117
Feb 2005176045.226.31$7,959
Jan 20053043.166.32$129
Dec 2004172039.866.75$6,856
Nov 2004173045.286.33$7,833
Oct 200416049.706.52$795
Sep 2004175043.245.28$7,567
Aug 20040042.375.55$0
Jul 2004181038.286.08$6,929
Jun 2004183036.106.43$6,606
May 2004174037.486.49$6,522
Apr 20040034.475.86$0
Mar 2004175034.365.53$6,013
Feb 20040032.455.51$0
Jan 2004184032.036.30$5,894
Dec 2003184030.266.30$5,568
Nov 20030028.804.60$0
Oct 20030028.174.76$0
Sep 20030026.314.75$0
Aug 2003178029.765.13$5,297
Jul 2003184029.415.17$5,411
Jun 20030028.565.98$0
May 20030026.595.97$0
Apr 20031026.675.41$27
Mar 2003175031.146.10$5,450
Feb 20030033.487.93$0
Jan 2003188030.315.58$5,698
Dec 200212026.914.85$323
Nov 2002189024.664.14$4,661
Oct 20021026.464.23$26
Sep 20020027.443.64$0
Aug 2002179025.963.16$4,647
Jul 2002184024.583.06$4,523
Jun 2002183023.733.34$4,343
May 2002182024.663.58$4,488
Apr 20023023.653.51$71
Mar 20020022.003.10$0
Feb 20020018.222.38$0
Jan 20020017.172.38$0
Dec 2001181016.932.36$3,064
Nov 20010018.072.41$0
Oct 20010019.782.53$0
Sep 20011024.262.25$24
Aug 2001179024.873.05$4,452
Jul 20010023.933.20$0
Jun 2001181024.563.82$4,445
May 20010025.524.31$0
Apr 20011024.685.34$25
Mar 20010024.545.38$0
Feb 20010027.755.77$0
Jan 2001193027.478.40$5,302
Dec 20000026.889.12$0
Nov 20000032.215.66$0
Oct 20000031.235.15$0
Sep 2000195031.875.19$6,215
Aug 20000029.644.54$0
Jul 20000028.534.09$0
Jun 2000181029.304.40$5,303
May 20001027.263.68$27
Apr 20000024.513.12$0
Mar 2000185028.422.86$5,258
Feb 20002027.622.73$55
Jan 2000176025.272.48$4,448
Dec 19991024.282.42$24
Nov 1999184023.192.43$4,267
Oct 1999185020.982.80$3,881
Sep 19991021.752.62$22
Aug 1999194019.262.88$3,736
Jul 19990017.892.37$0
Jun 1999187015.942.36$2,981
May 19993015.792.32$47
Apr 1999188015.102.21$2,839
Mar 19993012.471.84$37
Feb 199919209.981.82$1,916
Jan 1999180010.381.90$1,868
Dec 1998009.201.77$0
Nov 19980010.892.19$0
Oct 1998181012.421.97$2,248
Sep 19980012.592.08$0
Aug 1998190011.301.91$2,147
Jul 19983011.742.24$35
Jun 1998171011.242.24$1,922
May 1998179012.622.21$2,259
Apr 1998189013.042.51$2,465
Mar 19980012.802.31$0
Feb 19980013.952.30$0
Jan 1998167014.702.15$2,455
Dec 19972016.322.41$33
Nov 1997194018.193.09$3,529
Oct 1997189019.253.15$3,638
Sep 19972017.742.95$35
Aug 1997187017.862.55$3,340
Jul 1997192017.582.25$3,375
Jun 19972017.242.26$34
May 1997343018.972.31$6,507
Apr 19972117.882.08$38
Mar 199709418.951.94$182
Feb 199717020.492.21$175
Jan 199719310723.483.54$4,910
Dec 199619111823.32$4,454
Nov 1996015021.97$0
Oct 199618114723.31$4,219
Sep 199619212422.22$4,266
Aug 199608320.26$0
Jul 19962034919.55$3,969
Jun 199651918.73$94
May 19961817619.43$3,517
Apr 199646721.51$86
Mar 19961719719.38$3,314
Feb 19961999216.98$3,379
Jan 1996318517.07$51
Dec 199517530917.19$3,008
Nov 199519020616.00$3,040
Oct 199520419115.43$3,148
Sep 1995014416.18$0
Aug 199519920015.92$3,168
Jul 1995523215.24$76
Jun 199520114716.41$3,298
May 1995516617.56$88
Apr 199536322217.73$6,436
Mar 199520236316.44$3,321
Feb 1995034316.58$0
Jan 1995329415.92$48
Dec 199419436615.03$2,916
Nov 1994126415.90$16
Oct 199419032315.58$2,960
Sep 199417726815.29$2,706
Aug 199418629916.13$3,000
Jul 1994032017.56$0
Jun 199416928917.09$2,888
May 199419321315.88$3,065
Apr 1994033414.14$0
Mar 199419527512.46$2,430
Feb 199419421812.50$2,425
Jan 199409912.66$0
Dec 199318920012.33$2,330
Nov 199319327714.49$2,797
Oct 199318017515.85$2,853
Sep 1993023115.03$0
Aug 199318932815.66$2,960
Jul 199317815815.46$2,752
Jun 1993436016.79$67
May 199319318417.68$3,412
Apr 199317017418.05$3,069
Mar 199317842118.14$3,229
Feb 1993240317.90$36
Jan 199318233516.93$3,081

How to read this page

The arithmetic is one multiplication per stream per month. Here it is, worked, on a real row from the table above.

Oct 2006 — as filed, then multipliedworked
Oil                  173 bbl  × $ 54.90 =     $9,498
Casinghead gas         0 Mcf  × $  6.01 =         $0

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Month total                                   $9,498

The volumes are the state's, unchanged

Every barrel and every Mcf on this page is a number the Railroad Commission of Texas published in its monthly production query. Nothing is modelled, estimated or filled in.

The dollars are a multiplication, not a valuation

Volume × a published monthly price. It is not what the operator was paid: it takes no account of a contract, a differential, a transportation deduction, or the share any one owner holds.

Oil and gas are priced differently

Oil is a Texas realisation — the crude oil first purchase price. Gas is a benchmark, because no free Texas wellhead gas series exists at any date. The prices page publishes the difference rather than correcting it away.

A lease is not a well

The state reports oil on lease and gas on well, and this page is the lease grain. 08/O/29996 is the state's own key, not one this site invented.